Black Market Karma are today announcing their eleventh studio album ‘Wobble’ and sharing the lead single ‘Oozer’ alongside an accompanying video. Pooling influences from 60s pop and psychedelia, crunchy hip-hop break-beats and lo-fi electronica, ‘Wobble’ is a twelve-track collection of “cassette-ified” lo-fi psych-pop due out July 26th on their new label home Fuzz Cub.
On lead single ‘Oozer’, band-leader and multi-instrumentalist Stanley Belton says: “Oozer is about being malleable and adaptive to life as it’s coming at you. Holding close what you believe to be true while also being open to new information and techniques. Liquid moving around an obstacle instead of going through. It’s also about recycling negative mental states through the pursuit of things you enjoy, and repurposing them as a kind of positive fuel.”Hailing from London and now residing on the South Coast, BMK’s prolific output is fuelled by Belton, who writes, performs, records, produces and up until now self-released everything from his own live-in ‘Cocoon’ studio. The album’s title is a reference to tape wobble / wow and flutter, subtle fluctuations in pitch characteristic of analogue recording equipment. Where once seen as a
limitation by older generations, for others they evoke a welcome sense of nostalgia and that’s what Belton sought to excavate here:
“Sonically, I wanted the album to feel like a collection of discarded and worse for wear instruments came to life, refurbished themselves and started to play. The sound is an attempt to give form to the often formless feeling that is nostalgia. With songs attempting to crystallise a feeling known as ‘fernweh’. A kind of longing for a place and time you’ve never experienced, be it in this world or another.”
Wobble’ arrives off the back of 2022’s ‘Aped Flair and Hijacked Ideas’ album and the 2023 collaborative album ‘Friends In Noise’, which saw Belton team up with Tess Parks, The Underground Youth, Les Big Byrd’s Joakim Ahlund and The Confederate Dead. In 2023 Black Market Karma also released ‘The Sour Truth’, a collaborative single with Sonic Boom (Spacemen 3 co-founder Pete Kember), and toured heavily around Europe. In January of that year, they went out on a European run with The Black Angels, invited by the Texan psych-rock heavyweights themselves, followed by a November headline tour of their own.
‘MOST PERFECT SOLITUDE’ TOUR DATES
- May 2 - Leiden, NL @ Gebr. Denobel
- May 3 - Eindhoven, NL @ Fuzz Club Festival
- May 4 - Antwerp, BE @ Djingel Djangel
- May 5 - Chambery, FR @ Brin De Zinc
- May 6 - Bern,CH @ Cafe Kairo
- May 7 - Saint Martin, FR @ Cafe Concert Freppel
- May 8 - Sion, CH @ Point 11
- May 9 - Basel, CH @ Bar Renee
- May 10 - Vieux Ferrette, FR @ Brasserie Radwulf
- May 11 - Schaffhausen, CH @ Radio Rasa
- May 12 - Mannheim, DE @ Altes Volksbad
- May 13 - Kusel, DE @ Kinett
- May 14 - Dortmund, DE @ Sub Rosa
- June 2 - Berlin, DE @ Kantine am Berghain
- Sep 5 - Haarlem, NL @ Patronaat
- Sep 7 - Folkestone, UK @ The Chambers
- Sep 12 - London, UK @ The Water Rats
- Sep 13 - Northampton, UK @ The Black Prince
- Sep 14 - Hastings, UK @ The Piper
- Sep 16 - Rouen, FR @ Le # Pièces Musik
- Sep 19 - Oslo, NO @ Revolver
- Sep 20 - Gothenburg, SE @ Pustervik
- 21/09 - Copenhagen, DK @ Rahuset
More to be announced
SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘OOZER’: WATCH VIDEO / STREAM
ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘WOBBLE’ OUT JULY 26: PRE-ORDER